During his four years in the White House, former President Donald Trump was known for tearing up documents — and some of the documents he didn't tear up or shred found their way to Mar-a-Lago, where in January, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents, according to the Washington Post. Moreover, a forthcoming book by the New York Times' Maggie Haberman reports that a White House toilet was repeatedly clogged with printed paper, although Trump is denying that he flushed any documents down the toilet.
Liberal Washington Post opinion columnist Eugene Robinson, in his February 10 column, notes that some pundits have been saying that Trump's failure to obey the Presidential Records Act of 1978 is no big deal — or as Robinson calls it, the "Trump will be Trump" argument. But the columnist lays out some reasons why it is, in fact, a big deal.
